Epidemiologist Habibul Ahsan finds arsenic-contaminated drinking water responsible
for one-fifth of the deaths in parts of rural Bangladesh.
In China’s Fuzhou region, people make “spirit money” offerings with imitation U.S. currency.
The first scholar to seriously study Sanskrit puns and bitextual poems, Sanskritist Yigal Bronner, PhD’99, found that it was a popular literary device until colonial times.